Socially Engaged Art after Socialism: Art and Civil Society in Central and Easte

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The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity and solidarity. Drawing on archival material and exclusive interviews, in this book Izabel Galliera traces the development of socially engaged art from the early 1990s to the present in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. She demonstrates that, in the early 1990s, projects were primarily created for exhibitions organized and funded by the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art. In the early 2000s, prior to Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania entering into the European Union, EU institutions likewise funded socially-conscious public art in the region.Today, socially engaged art is characterised by the proliferation of independent and often self-funded artists' initiatives in cities such as Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest. Focusing on the relationships between art, social capital and civil society, Galliera employs sociological and political theories to reveal that, while social capital is generally considered a mechanism of exclusion in the West, in post-socialist contexts it has been leveraged by artists and curators as a vital means of communication and action.

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Izabel Galliera is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art & Design at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, USA. Her research has been published in the Journal of Curatorial Studies and appears in the forthcoming collections Collaborating Now: Art in the Twenty First Century (2016) and Redefining Creativity: Multi-Layered Collaborations in Art and Art Historical Practice (2016).

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Points of Contention: Socially Engaged Art Practice in Contemporary Theory2. Civil Society, and Social, Cultural and Political Capital3. Historical Antecedents: Participatory Art under Socialism, 1956–89PART I FROM SECOND SOCIETY TO CIVIL SOCIETY4. Civil Society in a Period of Post-Socialist Transition5. Antipolitics: Exhibitions at the Soros Centres for Contemporary Art6. Sofia: Participatory Public Art and Emerging Contemporary Art InstitutionsPART II FROM LOCALIZED PUBLIC SITES TO EU TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERES7. Place-Making: Framing Art in Public Spaces Curatorially8. Representing Counterpublics in Bucharest, Budapest and Sofia9. Contesting the Politics of Belonging in the Post-1989 EU CommunityPART III INSTITUTIONALIZED AND INSTITUTIONALIZING10. Institutionalized Community Arts Programmes11. Big Hope: Reviving Leftist Activism in Budapest12. Self-Institutionalizing as Political AgencyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Socially Engaged Art after Socialism is the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of the important new forms of socially engaged art that emerged in Central and Eastern Europe following the demise of the USSR. Its publication represents an important intervention in the emerging critical and theoretical debate around socially engaged art, and will allow us to further broaden the geopolitical scope of this important research. * Grant Kester, Professor of Art History, University of California, San Diego, USA and author of 'Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art' *

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As the first comprehensive study of socially engaged art in post-USSR Europe, this book is a major contribution to debates around art as social action.

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" Socially Engaged Art after Socialism is the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of the important new forms of socially engaged art that emerged in Central and Eastern Europe following the demise of the USSR. Its publication represents an important intervention in the emerging critical and theoretical debate around socially engaged art, and will allow us to further broaden the geopolitical scope of this important research." -- Grant Kester, Professor of Art History, University of California, San Diego, USA and author of 'Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art'

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As the first comprehensive study of socially engaged art in post-USSR Europe, this book is a major contribution to debates around art as social action.

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This is a groundbreaking text in an underserved but growing field focusing on socially engaged art in former Communist Europe

Details ISBN1350276685 Author Izabel Galliera Short Title Socially Engaged Art after Socialism Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1350276685 ISBN-13 9781350276680 Format Paperback Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts Subtitle Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 384 Publication Date 2022-04-07 NZ Release Date 2022-04-07 UK Release Date 2022-04-07 Illustrations 30 bw illus DEWEY 701.03 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2022-04-06 We've got this

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